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Excerpt from Mediaeval Hebrew Minstrelsy, Songs for the Bride Queen's Feast NQ less warm should be the gratitude of the student to the editor of these Table Songs. Mr. Loewe has brought together a mass of valuable historical material and literary parallels in order to bring out the distinctive nature of the Z emirotk. Their unique combination of adoration'of God with genial appreciation of good cheer is a product of the Jewish genius, which interweaves the secular with the sacred, and Spreads over the ordinary facts of life the rainbow of the Divine. I? The light of Judaism, the table is an altar; and every meal is hallowed by prayer, before and after. The ancient Jewish Mystics added a touch of ecstasy to these statutory prayers by singing gleeful table - hymns to the Giver of all good. This saintly custom was soon adopted by the whole House of Israel, albeit only for the Sabbath, which is and must ever remain the central sun in the existence of the faithful Jew. A Sabbath meal became, literally, a service of joy and with joy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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